#convent

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#country #expectation #individual #law #mental

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God. ↗

— John Sladek

#conventional #god #most #nor #novels

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that. ↗

— Peter Singer

#accordance #clearer #convention #course #geneva

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. ↗

— August Strindberg

#born #conventions #different #different points #exist

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it. ↗

— George Takei

#convention #extent #flattering #i #phenomenon